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King County Sheriff John Urquhart, left, looks on as Bellevue Police Chief Steve Mylett, right, addresses the media on Jan. 7 about a sex trafficking investigation the two departments partnered on over the last nine months.

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It was much, much bigger,” King County Sheriff John Urquhart told the media during a press conference on Jan. 7.

During a nine-months-long investigation, the King County Sheriff ’s Office and the Bellevue Police Department gathered evidence about a website called The Review Board on which members could post and read reviews on the sexual services they received from different prostitutes. They also gathered evidence on two men who used the site to advertise the services of women who worked for them. During their probe, law enforcement undercovered 13 individual apartments in seven upscale apartment complexes in Bellevue that were being operated as brothels and a private organization of men who solicited sex.

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of whom have since been rescued by police — were largely brought over from South Korea through a debt-bondage system in which they were required to work off their family’s debts through sexual service, sometimes servicing up to 10 customers daily, six or seven days a week.

“It is unlikely that many of these victims will say that this is what they had in mind when they came to King County, Washington,” King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said last week.

Unknown numbers of women were brought to the United States from South Korea. Once in the U.S., they were forced to travel from city to city on four-to-six week stints, according to law enforcement. The more popular they were in a city, the longer they stayed and the more frequently

King County took the first steps towards opening a trail on its section of the Eastside Rail Corridor by removing railraod spikes on the Bellevue and Kirkland boundary on Jan. 8.

The ceremony took place near the South Kirkland Park Ride at 108th Avenue Northeast, where the Cross Kirkland Corridor interim trail ends. The tracks will be salvaged and sold to pay for the costs of their removal and possibly go toward the construction of the new trail.

Bellevue Mayor John Stokes, who spoke at the ceremony, said that the county’s trail will provide better connection for people to

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Sound Transit gives tunnel presentation to emotional crowd

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Bellevue residents were given the opportunity Tuesday night to listen to Sound Transit officials and express concerns of their own regarding construction on the south portal of the Bellevue Tunnel.

The tunnel, a 1,985-foot-long portal that will begin just south of Main Street at 112th Avenue Northeast, will connect the planned East Main station and the Bellevue Downtown station for the East Link light rail project.

East Link is a 14-mile-long project Sound Transit has begun work on to provide light rail mass transit to the Eastside.

The train will run from Seattle, along I-90 over Mercer Island into Bellevue, and over I-405 to Overlake and Redmond.

Luke Lamon, the community outreach specialist for Sound Transit, said the meeting was likely to be the first of many times he’d be addressing Bellevue residents.

Engineers on the project showed slides of Sound Transit’s other projects, including the University District light rail link, which is scheduled to open this spring. The Northgate connection is another project scheduled for first service in 2021.

Some audience members didn’t find the presentation appealing.

“It’s a frickin’ sales pitch,” said one resident of West Bellevue.

For the East Link line, first service is

scheduled for 2023. Sound Transit hopes the option for reliable mass transit will alleviate traffic pressure on the region’s highways and surface streets.

According to projected numbers, Bellevue’s population is expected to increase 33 percent by 2040. Sound Transit projects its own lines (bus, light rail and Sounder train) to carry 101 million yearly passengers in the Puget Sound area by 2025.

Bellevue’s line will head underground on 112th, then will head west to 110th Avenue Northeast before it gets to Northeast 2nd Street. The tunnel’s north portal will emerge at Bellevue City Hall, and the line will be elevated along Northeast 6th Street over I-405 and to the planned Wilburton station.

Construction in Bellevue is estimated to take 52 months and preparatory work could begin on the south portal as soon as late February.

A 20-foot high “noise wall” will be erected for surface work to avoid bothering the residents near Surrey Downs Park and West Bellevue as much as possible, Sound Transit said.

Excavation on the tunnel could begin late summer or fall of 2016, with the sequential excavation method, a lower impact method in which bits of the tunnel are excavated and completed at a time with shotcrete.

Residents can expect lane closures along 110th and 112th Avenues and Main Street during construction.

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International School teacher Ryan Lafferty reacts to the announcement that he won Washington’s 2015–16 Milken Educator Award. Neither he nor the crowd had any idea that Lafferty had won.

International School teacher wins “Oscars of teaching” Lafferty only Washington teacher to win prestigious award this year

BY ALLISON DEANGELIS BELLEVUE REPORTER

International School teacher John Lafferty was shocked to hear his name called Jan. 7 as the winner of an award some have called the “Oscars of teaching.”

That’s not a euphemism.

Neither Lafferty nor the crowd of students, even school board members Chris Marks, My-Linh Thai and Carolyn Watson hadn’t been told what exactly was going to happen at the morning assembly. Only a handful of people — including OSPI Superintendent Randy Dorn and Jane Foley — knew the surprise they were about to give Lafferty.

A quiet murmur that ran through the crowd when the significance of the assembly was revealed was replaced by boisterous applause and cheering when it was announced that Lafferty had won the prestigious Milken Foundation’s Educator Award and a $25,000 prize.

“I’m not good with attention, I was a little bit overwhelmed when they called my name. I did not get into teaching to win awards,” he said.

The Milken Educator Award was launched by the Milken Family Foundation in 1987 and has been described as “the Oscars of teaching” by Teacher magazine.

Based on guidelines established by the Milken Foundation, participating states’ departments of education appoint blue-ribbon committees that recommend candidates. There is no formal nomination or application process.

Candidates are assessed on their instructional practices, student learning results, their educational accomplish-

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ments beyond the classroom and other criteria.

Lafferty joins up to 40 other educators who will receive the award this year, and is the only Washington recipient.

Redmond-native Lafferty joined the International School six years ago, and admits that his classes are a bit different from others. They’re project based and sometimes experimental. Most of all, he tries to make it engaging, he said.

It appears that it works. His science classes are in demand and his students earn high marks on exams, the school reported.

Lafferty is also a National Honors Society advisor, serves on the school’s middle and high science clubs and travels to the state science bowl. He is also committed to enhancing social emotional learning, interdepartmental collaboration and professional communication.

His proudest moments teaching, he said, have been when past students have come back to visit and told him how they pursued physics or engineering.

“Mr. Lafferty inspires his students every day,” Dorn said. “His upbeat attitude and project-based approach create an energized learning environment that supports a love of learning.”

Past winners joined Lafferty after the announcement, including Peter Kirk Elementary School Principal Monica Garcia, who told him she was happy to remember at least one Milken award ceremony.

“I just wish I could say treasure this experience and thank you for sharing, because I don’t remember this part when I won my award in 2005. It’s all a haze,” she told Lafferty.

Once the shock began to wear off, Lafferty knew exactly what he would do with his prize — a downpayment on a house for he and his wife.

“I’m going to fall apart when I call my wife,” he said.

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Opening day: Clean air rules, minimum wage hike and other issues

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tate lawmakers began the 2016 The Petri Dish legislative session on Monday with a bit of ceremony featuring comments by Republican and Democratic leaders.

Then members of the House and Senate dove into some controversial subjects.

The Senate Law and Justice ComJERRY mittee heard from the leader of the CORNFIELD Department of Corrections on errors that allowed 3,200 inmates to be released from prison early since 2002.

Corrections Secretary Dan Pacholke was scheduled to appear at the hearing that was webcast live by TVW. The House Environment Committee later conducted a work session on the clean air rules proposed last week by the Department of Ecology.

Gov. Jay Inslee ordered the rules be drawn up to effect a slow reduction in the amount of pollution-causing carbon emissions. As drafted, starting in 2017, the rules require the state’s largest emitters to reduce their emissions by 5 percent every three years.

Meanwhile, the other issue on Monday did not involve lawmakers directly.

It was be the filing of an initiative to raise the state minimum wage to as much as $13 an hour and mandate businesses provide workers with paid sick leave. Supporters will submit their paperwork along with a $5 filing fee at 10 a.m. at the Secretary of State’s office.

They will eventually need to collect and turn in 246,372 valid signatures of registered Washington voters to make the November ballot. The deadline to turn them in is July 8.

Political reporter Jerry Cornfield’s blog, The Petri Dish, is at www.heraldnet.com. Contact him at 360352-8623 or jcornfield@heraldnet.com.

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Letters to the editor Anti-toll group on track challenging WSDOT’s I-405 express lane tolls The anti-toll group is right on track in challenging the Washington State Department of Transportation on the Interstate 405 tolls (Jan. 8 Reporter article). WSDOT says the delays are due to construction, sporting events, higher rainfall and lack of people using the express toll lanes.

So if the first three are eliminated, it will solve the problem? The answer is — wake up to reality!

The fourth item seems to be aimed at forcing people to pay to use the two express lanes. WSDOT says that it will take six to 12 months for drivers to adjust and adapt to the new lanes. Adjust to what?

Pay to drive in the express lanes to ease the traffic in the regular lanes, or look at the traffic maps and stay off I-405 if the traffic is too heavy so as to not mess up their data? WSDOT officials’ rational, thought process and decisions are mind-boggling. It is time for the governor or the legislators to overhaul the department.

Larry Brickman Bellevue

Lack of affordable housing means loss of quality teachers I have some very specific experi-

ence and insight into what I am sure will be a hotly-debated topic in Olympia and in letters to the editors this year regarding teacher pay and retention.

I was a teacher in the Bellevue School District. I loved my job. I loved the Bellevue School District.

I loved working with my students and my colleagues.

In my opinion, the students, parents, teachers and administration have a great symbiotic relationship in Bellevue.

I have a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, I have a Master’s degree in education, I am a nationally board-certified teacher of mathematics.

I would have loved to have been able to remain teaching in Bellevue, but I could not because I could not afford to continue living in the region. I could not afford to purchase a house in or near Bellevue, and the commutes to Bellevue grew worse every year.

So last year, I began looking elsewhere, and being a mathemat-

ics teacher I am very employable.

Within months of beginning to seek alternative employment, I had several job offers in hand and had the pick of the litter in jobs, so I ended up in north Texas.

I took an $18,000 a year pay cut to accept this new position, but let’s do the math. I purchased a beautiful 2,600-square-foot, fourbedroom brick house in a nice subdivision for $210,000. That same house in the Bellevue, Kirkland area I am sure would have been $600,000-plus.

I now live 10 miles from my school and it takes me 15 minutes to get back and forth to work.

My Bellevue commutes were 30 minutes in the mornings and more than an hour in the afternoons.

So Gov. Jay Inslee and the Washington legislators, you should take note of my departure. There are many, many teachers who love what they do and you should try your very best to keep them in place. Good luck!

Kirk Kreiling

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Police reports from Bellevue

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Who, me?: A woman realized she had left her cellphone on a Metro bus and tracked it to the Downtown Transit Center. When she got there, she called it and heard it ringing in a man’s pocket. He initially denied having the phone, but ultimately gave it up.

Oh brother: An officer contacted a subject who lied about his name, until he learned his brother (whom he claimed to be) also had warrants out for his arrest. The subject was arrested and booked into King County Jail.

January 6 Caught red-handed: An officer located the suspect driving slowly in the Wilburton Hill neighborhood. Upon being seen, the driver left the neighborhood but was stopped in front of Fire Station 7. The driver had a warrant out of Marysville and was arrested. A window punch, knife and flashlight were located on his person. The passenger in the vehicle claimed she had no knowledge of the driver prowling the neighborhood. Both subjects admitted to being heroin users. A consent search of the vehicle yielded a stolen credit card out of Redmond, a stolen/washed check from Lynnwood and evidence of identification theft related to another victim in Lynnwood. The driver was booked into the Marysville jail. The investigation is ongoing.

January 7 Party crasher caught: Police were contacted after the suspect tried to enter a private party at the Hyatt. After he initially trespassed, the officers found a warrant out for his arrest. Officers stopped him again and arrested him, and a search revealed heroin and a loaded syringe in his pockets.

It was also discovered that the suspect had trespassed on Kemper Properties last month.

January 9 Found in unlikely town: An ex-employee of the company saw one of their dump trucks in the Puyallup area and called his old boss. It was determined the truck had been stolen from a Bellevue construction site, and the Pierce County Sheriff ’s Office was out with the truck as a Bellevue officer was taking the theft report. The recovered truck was turned over to another employee. It had a punched ignition, according to the deputy.

Dance mom drama: The subject was in town from Canada with her 12-year-old daughter and a dance group for a competition at the Meydenbauer Center. She told other moms she was not feeling well and then disappeared.

At about 5 a.m., she was found by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Canada, incoherent with brokenout windows on her van. She was transported to a local hospital and her husband was coordinating the return of

In an extended study session Monday night, the Bellevue City Council heard multiple reports from organizations updating their 2016 plans in the city.

Among these was a presentation from Dr. David Rule, Bellevue College president, giving a state of the college-type address. Bellevue College continues to look toward collaboration and possible partnership with Washington State University.

Rule said a Washington StateBellevue reformation was a possibility. Bellevue College is the third largest higher education institution in the state of Washington, serving more than 20,000 students, and as high as 25,000 if all Running Start students are taken into account.

The college is also a major transfer institution, sending more than 700 students yearly to University of Washington’s main campus and Bothell campus and a similar number to all Washington State University’s campuses.

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January 10 Captured criminals: Officers responded to a call of an erratically driven vehicle, which was located driving eastbound on Northeast 8th Street. The car was identified as having been stolen in Kent only six hours earlier. When the driver of the stolen vehicle saw the patrol car behind him, he immediately stopped, and he and the front passenger exited the vehicle, apparently evaluating whether it was worth running. Officers drew their weapons, and four subjects were taken into custody. A firearm was visible inside the vehicle.

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More services are needed for veterans, with 72 percent of the more than 7,000 veterans who call Bellevue home are 55 or older.

Mental health and substance abuse services are needed, responders said.

• The council heard plans for the South Bellevue light rail station, and how to work with the Enatai neighborhood and the Mercer Slough Nature Park while still providing space for the station and the Bellevue Park and Ride.

• Bellevue resident Janis Medley spoke to the council asking for improved safety with Puget Sound Energy transmission lines.

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Where the city falls short is affordable housing, with 68 percent of respondents rating the issue as a major or moderate problem, compared to 51 percent in 2013.

Housing data found that the cost of renting a two-bedroom apartment in Bellevue has risen 43 percent from 2011. Of renters in the city, 16 percent find themselves “severely cost-burdened,” paying more than 50 percent of their income for housing.

Homelessness has increased on the Eastside, and with that the number of homeless students has increased as well.

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And strategizing is a must, as Cukier runs several businesses that require a significant amount of attention.

Most well-known of these to Bellevue residents is Goldberg’s Deli in Factoria (with a downtown location as well), which Cukier says he raised up from a marginal spot to the thriving restaurant it is now. He is majority owner of the restaurant, splitting shares with other Jewish businessmen who invested in the delicatessen to keep in touch with their roots.

“They have interest, love deli and are Jewish,” Cukier said. “When I took this over, it was almost belly-up. I let go 60 or 70 percent of the employees and have built a new, strong business.”

He freely admits he is a ruthless businessman, and if you don’t fit into his vision, you are out the door. His son, Jason, joined him at the deli and is poised to take over once Cukier decides to take it easy — which could be in the next several months or years from now.

He also runs Group Travel Associates, Inc., a U.S./Canadian business that plans accommodations for large events such as the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle in mid-February.

“I’ve been doing it for 42 years and I’m damn good at it now,” he said. “My dad used to work with trade shows, working with hotel rooms and the trade people.”

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Benny Cukier welcomes customers to his Factoria delicatessen, where he spends much of his day when not balancing other businesses and his own health issues. ally a requirement that event-goers will rent a certain amount of hotel rooms. Cukier works with groups (such as Portland’s ComicCon, the Pacific Northwest Sportsman Show and the Green Technologies Suppliers Meetings) and hotels to ensure everyone has a place to sleep and they aren’t getting gouged for it. He’s a talented, stubborn negotiator and a professional middleman.

“You have the responsibility of 20-30,000 people on you,” Cukier said. “It’s stressful when people first arrive, but you can relax after they check in.”

The business depends on his negotiation skills, so once he retires, Group Travel Associates is kaput, he said.

Cukier, 59, admits that living large has taken its toll on his health. His wife, Peggy, administers the dialysis most of the time.

Northwest Kidney Centers provides assistance. It can be taxing on both of them.

“In reality I knew I earned it,” he said of his disease. “I abused my health, and overate for years. [Peggy] has taken on the challenge admirably.”

Still a large man, Cukier said he has lost 250 pounds from his heaviest and is doing

better in terms of his diet. Not an easy task when his deli makes “the best Reuben sandwich in the Pacific Northwest.”

Still, the Sammamish resident balances his hectic life with his healthcare needs.

While in Minnesota for the last week’s NFL Wildcard Playoff game, he planned ahead for dialysis treatment while he was there, and has done the same for Charlotte, North Carolina.

To whom does he ascribe all this energy and drive? His parents are the most likely candidates.

“For who I am, I give my father 99 percent of the credit, my mother too,” Cukier said. “I had great parents. My father built himself up from the ground up.”

Max Cukier, who died in 2011, was born in Ryki, Poland in 1918 and took up arms against the Third Reich in 1942, joining the famous Bielski Brigade of partisan fighters, meeting his wife during this period. They survived the war, emigrated to the United States and started a wildly successful importing business in Los Angeles.

Cukier said his father’s generosity, strict countenance and business acumen were instrumental in shaping him.

As such, his businesses have taken on his big and bold personality. Goldberg’s has become a Bellevue institution in its own right, attracting celebrities, business leaders and players for Cukier’s beloved Seahawks.

But a heart attack seven weeks ago and other health issues might finally have slowed his pace. However, you wouldn’t know it by talking to him.

“My whole thing is that dialysis shouldn’t interrupt what you do and how you do it,” Cukier said. “I think my life is pretty fulfilled. If I didn’t keep the adrenaline going, I’m not sure what I would do.”

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A Bellevue family was able to escape a two-alarm fire that heavily damaged their Crossroads home the morning of Jan. 13 thanks to a smoke detector and a teenaged boy’s quick thinking.

The boy was reportedly awakened around 2 a.m. by the smell of smoke and the sound of a smoke detector. He alerted his mother, who found light smoke in the kitchen and heavy, pressurized smoke in the garage. The pair and a second son fled the home and called 911.

Twenty units, including eight fire engines and four ladder trucks, responded to the two-alarm fire and found the home fully engulfed in fire on all four sides. Bellevue firefighters were joined

by Eastside Fire and Rescue, Kirkland,

Redmond and Mercer Island firefighters and managed to get the fire under control in 28 minutes.

“Because of the extent, the amount of fire and the extension into the adjacent building, that’s why we called for the second alarm, which was definitely needed,” said Bellevue Fire Lt. Ryan Armstrong.

The adjacent home 10 feet east of the involved house only sustained superficial damage because of the effective fire attack.

The origin and cause of the fire are under investigation, and there are no initial indications of what may have caused the fire. There was approximately $550,000 in damage to the homes, but all seven occupants and two pets from both homes have shelter and are uninjured.

The Bellevue Fire Department said that this fire is a testament to the importance of testing and maintaining smoke detectors and having a family evacuation plan.

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Their hope, he said, is for the trail to connect people from Totem Lake to Montlake and from Google to the University of Washington, ultimately connecting to 13 major trails.

“The value of this trail cannot be overstated,” Constantine said.

Recently-elected King County Councilmember and former Bellevue Mayor Claudia Balducci called the first step toward a new trail “an incredible opportunity to the people of our region,” while adding that it also marks

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Balducci represents the 6th District which includes Bellevue, Kirkland and Redmond, among other areas.

“We need to continue to work with those already living near the corridor to achieve the current and future potential of the [corridor],” she said.

“But also with those who live a quarter mile away, a half a mile away, so that everybody sees the potential here and everybody circles around to support this vision.”

Also attending were members from the Cascade Bicycle Club, with Executive Director Elizabeth Kiker saying, “What we’re doing here is the next national standard.”

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“I can’t imagine a better place to be to really start my term than helping remove these railroad tracks,” he said.

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BY SHAUN SCOTT BELLEVUE REPORTER

Last season was memorable for the Bellevue College Bulldogs men’s basketball team.

The Bulldogs, who had five sophomores on the roster, captured fifth place at the Northwest Athletic Conference tournament in 2015. Bulldogs’ sophomore forward Brian Zehr is the only returning player on the hardwood during the 2015-16 season for Bellevue. The Bulldogs lost in the semifinals but battled back through the consolation round to take fifth place. Thus far, the Bulldogs have compiled an overall record of 9-7 in early season action.

“It is different but it is fun at the same time. We have a bunch of different guys. We just come out here and try to compete every day,” Zehr said earlier this season. “It makes it a little more competitive that way.”

Zehr began last season as a reserve but said he cracked the starting lineup toward the end of the season.

“With me being the only returner, I definitely consider myself to be a leader on this team. I show the new guys the ropes and how community college basketball works,” he said.

Zehr said the Bulldogs are adjusting to playing together as one unit.

“The goal is to be competitive throughout the whole year, just play our asses off and see what happens,” he said.

Recently, the Bellevue Reporter had an opportunity to ask Zehr a few questions about his life away from the basketball court.

Bellevue Reporter: What is your favorite movie of all time?

Brian Zehr: “Superbad.” Jonah Hill in the early days was pretty funny.

BR: What is your biggest pet peeve?

BZ: When people drink stuff out of the refrigerator that doesn’t belong to them.

BR: Who was your favorite athlete growing up?

BZ: Kobe Bryant. He had such a great work ethic.

BR: What is something unique about you that nobody would know?

BZ: I have three turtles. Their names are Toad, Frog and Turtle.

BR: Who is your pick to win the Super Bowl in February?

BZ: I’m going to take the Seahawks.

They’re going to come back. I think they got a rhythm now and are going to bring it together.

BR: If you could pick one person to go to dinner with, who would it be?

BZ: My mom. She is the only person I love to death.

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Saints still searching for the win column Shorewood turned in a dominating 65-45 victory against the Interlake Saints on Jan. 9. The Saints (0-13) will face the Sammamish Totems at 7:15 p.m. on Jan. 12 at Sammamish High School in Bellevue.

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Bellevue defeats Liberty in nail-biter

The Bellevue Wolverines defeated the Liberty Patriots 58-56 on Jan. 8. It was the fourth consecutive victory for the Wolverines.

Bellevue (10-1) will face the Juanita Rebels at 8 p.m. on Jan. 15 at Juanita High School in Kirkland.

Issaquah earns win against Newport

The Issaquah Eagles captured a 56-48 win against the Newport Knights on Jan. 9.

The Knights (6-7) will face the Bothell Cougars at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 15 in Bothell.

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Men’s World Squash Championship benefit auction on the horizon

YSK Events is hosting a Men’s World Squash Championship benefit auction/dinner at 6 p.m. on Jan. 30 at the PRO Sports Club in Bellevue. The cost is $150 per plate. There will be live and silent auctions during the festivities. Some of the live auction items consist of an autographed squash ball, autographed game balls, a

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Gregory Gaultier of France captured the 2015 Professional Squash Association World Championship, courtesy of a 3-0 (11-6, 11-7, 12-10) victory against Egypt’s Omar Mosaad in the title match on Nov. 22 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.

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Bellevue remains undefeated

The Bellevue Wolverines improved their overall record to 12-0 with a 85-27 victory against the Liberty Patriots on Jan. 8. Bellevue will face the Juanita Rebels at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 15 in Kirkland.

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The first time I watched “Rocky IV” as a 5-yearold in the late 1980s I was hooked on the famed “Rocky” series.

I preceded to watch all four “Rocky” films countless times on what would now be considered an archaic four-head VCR in my parents living room in my hometown of Belfair during my elementary school years. Much to my delight, “Rocky V” was released in 1990 while I was in the third grade. I couldn’t wait to make the trip to Regal South Sound Cinemas in Port Orchard with my dad to see it.

A mind-boggling 16 years later, the sixth installment of the “Rocky” series titled “Rocky Balboa” appeared in the theaters. My best friend Nolan Soete and I planned our entire weekend around it. After walking out of the theater in December of 2006, we were thrilled with the movie and figured the “Rocky”

series had officially come to a conclusion.

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The night before Thanksgiving, my friend DJ Jackson and I caught the seventh movie of the “Rocky” series titled, “Creed.” As I made my way to my seat I was excited but had no expectations. “Creed” ended up exceeding all of my expectations in every way possible.

Without giving away too much of the plot, the movie focuses on Apollo Creed’s son Adonis and his quest to become a champion boxer. Adonis, who grew up in Los Angeles and was born after his father Apollo had passed away at the hands of Russia’s Ivan Drago in “Rocky IV,” makes the trip to Philadelphia to chase his dreams. He quickly persuades Rocky to train him and the journey develops from there.

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love story and unbridled adversity. The centerpiece of the movie is the friendship cultivated between Adonis and Rocky. On the surface they exude the typical trainer/boxer partnership but as the film progresses it evolves, in my opinion, to the relationship experienced between Rocky and his trainer Mickey Goldmill in the first three “Rocky” films.

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You don’t have to be a sports fan to enjoy this flick. I wouldn’t be surprised if “Creed II” happens sometime in the next few years. “Creed” was that darn good!

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they would visit in the future.

Both brothel owners and clients used sites such as The Review Board to allegedly promote and facilitate the trafficking of these women, according to Satterberg.

In some cases, that meant posting reviews and encouraging men to solicit certain women in order to have them stay in the area longer. Other times, men such as the League leader Charles Peters would allegedly use their extensive contacts with agencies and pimps to vouch for other members and help arrange services.

The Review Board had 14,000 members across the country, and police were able to make links between their case in King and Pierce counties to 15 states. A separate website the League created — Kgirlsdelight.com — had millions of hits per month, police reported.

Prostitution in Bellevue is not a new issue and has been evolving over the years, a vice detective told the Reporter in August 2014.

Court documents reveal that the King County Sheriff ’s Office first began investigating the Review Board and suspected human sex traffickers in 2007. Since the Bellevue Police Department’s vice unit was created in 2011, they have raided numerous massage parlors in the city.

But, law enforcement has long known that prostitution has been growing online and moving behind closed doors. “(The apartment brothels) provided cover and concealment for their activities. Infiltrating that is difficult,” Chief Steve Mylett said. The public perception that prostitution is something relegated to large cities like Seattle is probably why the brothel operators chose Bellevue, he added.

Over the last year, the Bellevue Police Department began receiving complaints from residents of high-end downtown Bellevue condominiums reporting suspicious activity — different men frequently visiting certain apartments at all hours of

the night, and staying for approximately 30-60 minutes each.

“It’s not as if I go out of my way to notice this pattern of activity. It’s right under my nose, and other residents have noticed it, too,” a resident of the Avalon Meydenbauertold apartment building told the Reporter in August.

It was complaints such as this, as well as the murder of Kittaporn Saosawatsri in March 2015 in the Avalon Meydenbauer, that prompted the Bellevue police to begin probing small brothels such as the ones allegedly operated by Donald Mueller and Michael Durnal.

A former illegal marijuana grower, Mueller told police he decided to change his “business plan” in 2014 and begin a brothel in a Northgate apartment after reportedly being approached by an unidentified prostitute to provide a place for her to see clients in exchange for a cut of the profits and sexual services.

Soon, he was raking in $1,500 per day and moved his operation to Bellevue, where Durnal joined him in his selfproclaimed human trafficking scheme, according to police. The pair allegedly acted as bookers, advertising the services of different women on The Review Board.

The popular sex advertising and review website was reportedly started by Sigurds Zitars and eight other men sometime between 2001 and 2003. Before it was shut down, over 23,000 members across the United States were using the free website, according to police.

Reviews of sex workers posted on the website described encounters with them — including many of the women working in Mueller and Durnal’s brothels — in graphic detail.

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Despite this, members of the League Seemingly stifled by Zitars’s aversion to appear to have viewed themselves as advertising Asian sex workers — whom he gentlemen. reportedly thought would draw more law New members received a three-pageenforcement attention — a group of solong Code of Conduct in an introductory called Korean sex worker “hobbyists” in email, listing agreed-to behaviors and the Seattle-area formed an exclusive club rules. called the League.

Members were told that “‘no’ means It is unknown when exactly the League ‘no,’” reminded to be punctual and that was first formed, but the organization condoms and good hygiene were required. grew quickly. By last summer, they had 50 The Code of Conduct also referred to the screened members and promoted over 300 price of sexual services as a “donation.”

Asian sex workers on their public website.

“What is the benefit to following these Select users on The Review guidelines?” the document Board were invited to meetconcluded. “Continued access and-greets with League mem- “Suddenly, a very to the hobby you love … It’s pained look took pretty simple: kindness and bers. A King County Sheriff ’s over her face. I Officer undercover detective consideration will benefit who infiltrated the League re- actually thought everyone.” ported that he attended meet- she was going Police shut down The and-greets, posted reviews Review Board website on to cry. ‘Yes! I and showed his involvement Jan. 5 and served 126 search scared!.’“ in the “hobby” by asking the warrants and court orders A client’s account on leader, Peters, to help him related to the case last week.

The Review Board of his solicit sex workers over five The League’s members-only interaction with a sex months before being taken off website www.theloeg.net and worker on her first day of “probation.” public website www.kgirlsdeIn their discussions with light.com are also no longer one another, the memoperational, but were not shut bers were cavalier about their so-called down by law enforcement. “hobby.”

Zitar, Peters and the 10 other League During regular meetings held in and members were charged with felony proaround Bellevue, the dozen or so attendmoting prostitution. Mueller and Durnal ees would discuss at length various issues, were both charged with felony promoting including what methods/excuses they prostitution, and police found probable used to hide their activities from their cause for trafficking in the first degree and wives and girlfriends, whether or not they money laundering charges, although they were comfortable knowing a prostitute have been charged with neither at press was having “bareback” (unprotected) sex time. with other clients and the details of their The investigation into The Review experiences with different women.

Board’s clients and the trafficking of South Many times the discussions were so Korean women is ongoing. The FBI and graphic that patrons sitting at nearby local law enforcement will be reaching out tables would get up and leave or move to to the South Korean consulate to aid in the another table, according to an undercover case, according to Urquhart.

King County Sheriff ’s Office detective who While charges are not currently being infiltrated the League. filed against the scores of other sex buyers Many of the members reportedly made whose information was obtained durcomments that indicated they were aware ing the probe on The Review Board and that the women they visited were more Kgirlsdelight.com, they have not ruled out than likely trafficked and had no choice in further action. working as a prostitute.

“We want to send a message to the When one member said “it’s not like men in the Seattle area who want to think these girls choose to do this,” the League’s about starting a website like this. If you leader Peters reportedly responded that are committing a crime of promoting the girls were not the smartest people prostitution by setting up these websites, since they had made bad lifestyle decisions by facilitating prostitution, we don’t want that led them into sex work, according to that to occur anymore and if you do, we court documents. will come after you,” Urquhart said.

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DR. TERRENCE ROBERTS — REFLECTING ON HISTORY TO INFORM THE FUTURE: 1

p.m., Bellevue Library.

Dr. Terrence Roberts is a member of the ‘Little Rock Nine’, the first group of African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

Though a federal court order called for desegregation to begin on Sept. 4 of that year, angry protesters and Arkansas National Guardsmen tried to prevent the students from entering the school. It wasn’t until President Eisenhower stepped in with Army soldiers that the students were able to enter. Roberts will reflect on his experience at Little Rock Central High School and share how Dr. King’s vision was relevant then and now.

MEET THE HABITATS OF LEWIS CREEK — FANTASTIC FORESTS:

1 p.m., Lewis Creek Visitor Center, 5808 Lakemont Boulevard SE. What kind of wildlife lives in the forest?

How can you use clues, such as leaves, flowers and bark to solve the tree mystery at Lewis Creek? Come discover the forest habitat as the first program of this three-part series. This free event is for ages 5 and over. No registration required. For more information, contact tbushmanst@bellevuewa.gov.

KNIGHTS IN VIENNA: 7 p.m., Newport High School. A night of music and dancing in support of the Friends of Newport Orchestras. Open to the public.

SUNDAY | 17 BELLEVUE LIBRARY HORTICULTURAL SERIES PRESENTS KERN EWING: 3

p.m., Bellevue Library. Kern Ewing, professor of plant ecology at the University of Washington Botanic will discuss the evolution and restoration of the Union Bay natural area.

MONDAY | 18 MLK CELEBRATION OF A DREAM AND HEALTH FAIR: 11 a.m. - 3

p.m., Crossroads Bellevue Main Stage. This tribute will feature entertainers, guest speakers and a health fair.

Co-sponsors include the City of Bellevue, Crossroads Shopping Center and Bellevue Alumnae Chapter Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Real-time captioning will be provided. For more information, contact mmanuel@bellevuewa.gov.

TUESDAY | 19 EASTSIDE FUCHSIA SOCIETY:

7 p.m., 12001 Main St. The organization will discuss their plans for the year, and will install the 2016 officers and board mem-

REMODELING CONTRACTORS INFORMATION SESSION

Thursday, January 21, 2016, 9:30-Noon Bellevue City Hall - Conf. Rm. 1E-108 450-110th Ave. NE, Bellevue, WA 98004 The City of Bellevue Home Repair Program/King County Housing Authority is seeking Washington State licensed, bonded, and insured General Contractors. King County Housing Authority maintains a list of qualified contractors to bid on housing rehabilitation projects within the city limits of Bellevue.

Required Qualifications: Recent housing rehabilitation projects over $35,000 in the Puget Sound Region. Must be a licensed General Contractor and have been in business for at least 1 year.

For more information, call City of Bellevue at 206-452-4069 or email SEzadean@bellevuewa. gov. The City of Bellevue is “An Equal Opportunity Employer” Section 3 and WMBE Contractors are encouraged to apply.

SUBMISSIONS: The Reporter welcomes calendar items for nonprofit groups and community events. Please email your event notices to adeangelis@bellevuereporter.com. Items should be submitted by noon on the Monday the week before publication. Items are included on a space-available basis. CALENDAR ONLINE: Post activities or events online with our calendar feature at www.bellevuereporter.com.

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WEDNESDAY | 20 NEWCASTLE YOUTH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (NYCE) AND COAL CREEK YMCA: 6:30 p.m.,

Coal Creek Family YMCA, 13750 Newcastle Golf Club Road. Join Newcastle Youth Community Engagement and have the opportunity to voice your opinions on the programs and services you would like to see at the Newcastle Library, Coal Creek Family YMCA and in the Newcastle community. For middle and high school aged youth. Monthly meetings are every third Wednesday of the month and meeting locations alternate between the Newcastle Library, YMCA and City Hall.

THURSDAY | 21

STARSHIPS & SORCERY BOOK CLUB: 5:30 p.m., 990 102nd

Ave. NE. This month’s book club will delve into Helene Wecker’s “The Golem and the Jinni.” Weaving together Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, “The Golem and the Jinni” is a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale about two supernatural creatures who arrive in New York in 1899. One is a golem, created out of clay to be her master’s wife, but her master dies at sea. The other is a jinni, a being of fire, trapped for a thousand years in a copper flask before a tinsmith releases him.

Unknown to each other, the golem and the jinni explore the strange and altogether human city, until one night, their paths converge.

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PUBLIC NOTICES In the King Co District, East Division Court of the State of WA for King Co, Rebecca M Strisower, Petitioner vs. Christopher A Brunton, Respondent.

Case 151-00488. The State of WA to Christopher A Brunton: You are hereby summoned to appear on Jan 21, 2016 at 1:00pm at 1309 114th Ave. SE, Suite 100, Bellevue, WA 98004 and respond to the petition. If you fail to respond, an order of protection will be issued against you pursuant to the provisions of chapter 10.14 RCW, for a minimum of one year from the date you are required to appear. A temporary order of protection has been issued against you, restraining you from the following: contact with, surveilling of or being within 100 yards of Petitioner and her residence. A copy of the petition, notice of hearing and ex parte order has been filed with the clerk of this court. Signed Rebecca M Strisower, Petitioner.

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Sound Transit, located at 401 S. Jackson St. Seattle, WA 98104, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit.

The proposed project, East Link Extension, will be a design-build project consisting of 1.7 miles of double-track Light Rail Transit (LRT) guideway along the south edge of SR 520 from 136th Place NE to Overlake Transit Center.

Guideway types include aerial, at-grade and retained cut. Project includes two at-grade stations; Overlake Village (near 152nd and 16 Avenue NE) and Overlake Transit Center (interim terminus of LRT). Overlake Transit Center also includes a new parking garage, office space, and

reconstruction of the Overlake Transit Center facilities. Pedestrian/bike bridges are included at each station spanning across SR 520. Stormwater and dewatering water will be treated using and Ecology-approved treatment system and discharged indirectly through City of Bellevue storm drain system to Valley Creek.

Additionally discharge will occur in the City of Redmond storm drain system to Sears Creek and Lake Sammamish.

Any persons desiring to present their views to the Washington State Department of Ecology regarding this application, or interested in Ecology’s action on this application, may notify Ecology in writing no later than 30 days of the last date of publication of this notice. Ecology reviews public comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a measurable change in receiving water quality, and, if so, whether the project is necessary and in the overriding public interest according to Tier II antidegradation requirements under WAC 173-201A-320.

Comments can be submitted to: Department of Ecology Attn: Water Quality Program, Construction Stormwater P.O. Box 47696, Olympia, WA 98504-7696 Published in Bellevue Reporter 01/15/16, 01/22/16 #1513469.

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SATURDAY | 23 “LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS” FILM SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION: 2 p.m., Bellevue

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Juanita (Byrd) Johnson, a “Soldier in the Army of the Lord” and beloved mother of thirteen children, went home to be with Jesus on January 9, 2016 at 1:40 PM. Mother Johnson was a resident and homeowner of the Crossroads community in Bellevue for over 40 years.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28.

Home going service is on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 11:00AM at Tolliver Temple C.O.G.I.C, 1915 E Fir St, Seattle, WA. Reception to follow at Sunset Hills Memorial Park & Funeral Home, 1215 145th Place SE, Bellevue, WA 98007.

Mother Johnson leaves behind to mourn her passing 12 children, her brother Willis Byrd and her sister Erma Wallace and a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great grandchildren, extended family and many others who called her mom!

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